Blogs

Why focus on climate risk insurance? Fabiola Espinoza Córdova '19 (Peru) on her MESPOM internship

October 24, 2018
Internships
Blogs
Student Story

"My advice to future students? Use the time of the internship between the two academic years to focus on your field of interest, experience something you have not done before (for me, it was working in a think tank), and choose something, which will be useful when the time to decide what you will do after your studies."

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Teaching and learning about environmental justice: Hidden Valley and BP Horizon Oil Spill cases

October 9, 2018
MESPOM @ CEU
Blogs

In the first semester at CEU, Environmental Sciences and Policy students have the option to take a course called Environmental Justice, Politics and Humanities taught by Dr. Guntra Aistara and Dr. Tamara Steger. Students have the opportunity to assimilate their learning of course material through analyzing real-life examples of environmental issues.

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Ecology and sustainable tourism in Ecuador to water chemistry and management in the U.K.

October 9, 2018
MESPOM @ Manchester
Student Story
Thesis
Blogs

Dany Avalos '17 (Ecuador) received a Bachelor’s degree in Ecology and Sustainable Tourism and wrote a Bachelor's thesis on the Impacts of Tourism in Indigenous Communities located on the south-east bank of the Amazon Rainforest in Ecuador at the Kapawi Reserve and Ecolodge.

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The Fossil Fuel Curse: a project by two students: Sandeep and Savannah (India and Canada '17)

October 9, 2018
Blogs
Student Story

The MESPOM program offers different modes of support to students who have ideas for initiatives and projects related to their special interests. Savannah Carr-Wilson (Canada, ’15-’17) and Sandeep (India, ’15-’17) are classmates currently in their second year who are working together on a book project based on their mutual interest in global energy transitions away from fossil fuels. The book is tentatively titled “The Fossil Fuel Curse” and features untold stories of the uncertain future of people in India and Canada who are impacted by fossil fuel extraction.

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Abdul Maruf Khalid's story: a background in development with hopes to bring knowledge home and improve environmental issues in Afghanistan

October 9, 2018
Blogs
Student Story

What is your professional and educational background, and what brought you to MESPOM?

I am currently a student of the first year of the MESPOM at CEU, and a graduate of the civil engineering faculty of the Kabul University.

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